Marsha Hill Author

Kristin Thompson: Since 2001, Kristin has been a member of Barry Kemp’s expedition at Amarna. Initially she registered hundreds of fragments from previous excavation teams’ dumps. Her work quickly expanded to include joining some of these fragments, including reassembling substantial sections of a major statue. Kristin also traced many of these items to the workshop or building where they originated. As hundreds of additional pieces continued to be found, it became obvious that a publication of all known pieces from royal buildings at the site was essential. In preparing this volume, she has visited twenty-eight museums with Amarna pieces.

Marsha Hill: Marsha Hill is Curator Emerita in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, after a career there of over forty years. Marsha specialises in sculpture and its place in Egyptian culture. She studied the large quantity of Amarna statuary fragments that came to the Museum from Howard Carter’s work for Petrie in the Amarna Great Aten Temple sanctuary and related pieces in other collections and at the site. In 2004 she joined forces with Kristin on the larger project of this book. Marsha has been a regular member of Barry Kemp’s Amarna Project team since 2012 when work began on the Great Aten Temple.